FLAG INCIDENT

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1939, Page 5

FLAG INCIDENT

ON ANZAC DAY. (Australian Press Association). . . V SYDNEY, April 26. Referring to the swastika flag incident yesterday, at the German Consulate in Sydney, Doctor O. Seger, Acting-German Consul, in the absence of the Consul-General, who is en route to Germany,, said : “I am puzzled how, in this civilised city, such a misunderstanding should have arisen. I gave the instruction that our flag was to be hoisted at half mast yesterday, in honour of the dead Australian heroes, and it was not flown at full mast until I saw that all other flags were hoisted to full mast. However, I do not take the incident seriously, although the matter will be reported to the authorities in Germany.”

The police report to-day stated that the German flag at the Consulate was flown at half mast until noon yesterday. After tiiat it was raised to the masthead. N.Z. SCULPTOR. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. The New. Zealand sculptor, Frances Shurrock, is exhibiting a bronze head at the Royal Academy.' NO RECIPROCITY. \Reeeived this day at 1.5 p.nn.l LONDON, April 26. Sir Thomas Tnskip, in the Commons, said reciprocal pension arrangements' between the United Kingdom and the Dominions at present were impracticable, and must depend on the existence in the Dominions of schemes comparable •to those of the United Kingdom.